The shift to cloud services increasingly requires changes in network infrastructure to support the rollout, a networking industry-sponsored study found. Juniper Networks commissioned the hybrid cloud study earlier this year from market researcher Forrester Research. When respondents were asked whether they have or will change their network infrastructure as part of a cloud initiative, the ...Full article
The funny thing about the largest cloud computing providers is that they are all bragging about the scale at which they can provide compute, storage, and networking capacity. But none of them want to reveal precisely how much capacity they have installed in their datacenters and regions. We all presume that their capacity is immense ...Full article
You want your healthcare insurance provider to run a lean and mean IT shop, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama is always looking at new technologies to make its operations more efficient. The latest ones being adopted by the healthcare company are new networking gear for Hewlett-Packard's BladeSystem blade servers and shifting from VMware's ...Full article
The Cloud Foundry Foundation's ecosystem continues to expand with the addition of a database service broker that would help bolster the cloud initiative's backend data services. CumuLogic, a private database-as-a-service (DBaaS) vendor, said it is releasing a technical preview of its database service broker that would allow Cloud Foundry users to obtain production-ready database services ...Full article
The first wave of 64-bit ARM server processors are just coming out of the fabs from AMD and Applied Micro, and ARM Holdings, the company that licenses the ARM architecture, is cranking up the coherent interconnect at the heart of its system-on-chip designs to push even higher scalability in the not-too-distant future. As with core ...Full article
EMC said this week it will acquire privately held DSSD Inc., a secretive developer of a flash storage architecture geared to I/O-intensive in-memory databases and big data workloads. Separately, EMC announced a new hybrid cloud offering EMC said the DSSD acquisition is expected to close by the end of the second quarter but released no ...Full article
Hewlett-Packard said it expects to invest more than $1 billion over the next two years to deliver and support a "converged infrastructure" that includes cloud products and services geared to hybrid IT platforms. HP's cloud offerings, OpenStack-based technologies, and support services will be incorporated under its new Helion portfolio. The goal of the initiative is ...Full article
VMware and SAP announced the release this week of the German software vendor's in-memory computing platform, HANA, running on top of VMware's vSphere 5.5 server virtualization software. The agreement means vSphere has now achieved production support for HANA, the partners said. The combination is expected to provide vSphere 5.5 customers with an alternative method for ...Full article
Cloud controller pioneer Eucalyptus Systems is sticking to its plan to provide a private cloud alternative that mimics Amazon Web Services and with the 4.0 release of its eponymous software the company is adding support for more AWS features. Many of the features in the release were driven and tested by Nokia Siemens Networks, which ...Full article
EMC rolled out an elastic cloud storage appliance that targets the hyperscale cloud storage infrastructure market. The appliance is the result of a research project known as "Project Nile." The company also announced a new version of a software-defined storage platform and related design services. EMC said during a company-sponsored event that the appliance scales ...Full article
It is a pity that smartphones and tablets did not come along earlier and did not need 64-bit processing and memory addressing sooner than they did. Had these consumer devices (which are now generally thought of as being indispensable for business as well) required such rich circuitry earlier, then the collective of chip manufacturers who ...Full article
Chip maker AMD wants the world to know that it is not just dabbling in ARM processors, but rather intends to make ARM chips peers to its X86 products. At an event in San Francisco today, the top brass of the company revealed the full extent of its “ambidextrous computing” strategy, which includes an effort ...Full article
Whitebox server maker Supermicro is teaming up with hybrid server-switch maker and networking upstart Pluribus Networks to run the latter company's Netvisor network operating system on the integrated switches in its MicroBlade hyperscale servers. Supermicro is also pairing the MicroBlades with the Freedom Server-Switch running OpenStack to create a complete, ready-to-run private cloud. The MicroBlade ...Full article
HP is rolling out what it calls its Facility-as-a-Service datacenter approach that aims to provide an alternative means of sourcing datacenters by going beyond current colocation models. Besides giving customers more flexibility and control over datacenter operations, HP emphasized that its FaaS model would allow them to shift initial capital expenses related to datacenter construction ...Full article
Flash storage maker SanDisk is keeping the pressure on the competition on a number of different fronts and is positioning itself to be a key supplier of various kinds of flash storage for enterprises. SanDisk has partnered with Toshiba on a flash foundry that is moving to 15 nanometer technologies, is at the moment the ...Full article
When computing is all that you do, at a certain scale it makes sense to control all elements of the IT stack, from the operating system kernel all the way to the wall of the datacenter. None of the big hyperscale datacenter operators and cloud providers do so yet, but as they grow and need ...Full article
Eight new financial and technology companies have joined the Cloud Foundry Foundation, nearly doubling membership in the group that is promoting an open-source, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for enterprise computing. Pivotal Software, an enterprise PaaS provider coordinating the transition to the Cloud Foundry Foundation, announced the new members. They are: Accenture, BNY Mellon, Capgemini, Ericsson, GE, Intel, ...Full article
Red Hat is getting serious about storage and has snapped up Inktank, whose Ceph Enterprise technology provides file system, object and block storage software deployed by enterprises in public and private clouds. The software is increasingly paired with OpenStack, the cloud controller that Red Hat has put its significant weight behind. The deal builds on ...Full article
Virtualization management software maker CloudVolumes is rolling out a new release of its eponymous tool stack, targeting hybrid clouds. The company has also announced a new capability it calls AppCloaking along with enhanced support for XenApp, the old-school application virtualization tool from Citrix Systems. CloudVolumes, which describes itself as virtualizing everything above the operating system, ...Full article
Software-defined storage vendor DataCore Software rolled out the latest version of its SANsymphony virtual storage area network, which seeks to boost utilization of pricey flash storage technology while pulling together virtual and physical storage services. DataCore said that version 10 of its virtual SAN software addresses the need to boost utilization of flash storage by ...Full article
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